Harry and Meghan’s Battle With the Media

I realise that mention of Harry and Meghan might make many of you roll your eyes. But stick with me, I’ll get to the art. By now the details of what has emerged from the recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9WMpiH8qd8" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Netflix documentary</a>, Prince Harry’s TV interview and his autobiography are well known to anyone who has been paying attention to this particular news story: family arguments and rivalry; the realities of how the British tabloid press are briefed on royal stories; how the trauma of his mother’s death has profoundly affected Harry throughout his life; the sadness and frustration of a life lived as the royal ‘spare’; a delightful love story; Harry’s angry crusade against the intrusive British tabloid press etc. Lines have been drawn, sides have been taken. It’s a dramatic story and one which will no doubt be turned in to a movie eventually. But for me the most interesting element of the whole thing, what I think is the key takeaway for us to think about and address, has been buried in all the sensational drama: the continuing issue of racial bias in British and American mainstream news media that contributes to the unequal dynamics of power in society. In one of the episodes of the Netflix documentary the couple demonstrate the negative ways in which Meghan’s ethnicity has been represented in the media since the news of their relationship first broke.  <a href="https://medium.com/counterarts/harry-and-meghans-battle-with-the-media-dce56a658204">Click Here</a>